Movable coal or ore handling and storage device.



No. 659,502. Patented. .0ct. 9, I900. R. D. WHITE, P. S. HILDRETH &. A. LIEBMANN. MOVABLE COAL 0R OBE HANDLING AND STORAGE DEVICE.

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ROBERT D. WHITE, PEROY s. HILDRETH, AND ALFRED LIEBMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MOVABLE COAL OR ORE HANDLING AND STORAGE DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 659,502, dated October 9, 1900.

Application filed November 3, 1899. Serial No. 735.675. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ROBERT D. WHITE, PERCY S. HILDRE'IH, and ALFRED LIEBMANN, citizens of the United States, residing at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Movable Coal or Ore Handling and Storage Devices, of which the following is a specification.

[O This invention relates to a device for receiving, storing, transporting, and delivering coal, Ore, or similar merchandise to or from vessels or between a supply on land to a vessel, or vice versa.

Difficulties have frequently been encountered in the handling of coal, ore, and similar material, especially in places where the Water has not been deep enough to permit large vessels to be tied up to a wharf or dock or to get close enough thereto, with the usual means employed for either loading or unloading the vessel; and the object of our invention is to overcome these difficulties.

In carrying out our invention we employa 2 5 barge or float upon which is erected a permanent trestle or framework, the same supporting and carrying an overhead track and conveyer. A pocket is made at one end of the float in the trestle or framework, and a mast and boom are made use of at the other end, and a suitable engine or power device is located upon the barge for operating the conveyer, which conveyor may be a scoop or bucket and chains or an endless traveling conveyor of buckets. The mast assists in supporting the boom, and the boom extends out from the barge or float over an adjacent vessel. With this device coal, ore, or similar material may be received into the pocket and therefrom removed by the conveyor and carried along over the barge and the boom and delivered into an adjoining vessel, or the material may be delivered upon the barge and the barge towed a distance into deep water and then the material handled a second time from the barge by the conveyer into an adjoining vessel, or, vice versa, material may be removed from a canal-boat or other vessel by the conveyor and carried along over the barge and delivered into the pocket at the end of the trestle, from which the material may run by gravity into cars upon a railway, or the material may be removed from the canal-boat or other vessel and be placed. upon the barge and the barge conveyed to a distant point and the material then removed from the barge and delivered into the pocket and from the pocket run by gravity into cars upon a railway-track, the operations being at all times under the control of and operated by the power mechanism placeddirectly upon the barge or float.

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation illustrating our improvement, and Fig. 2 isa plan viewof the same.

The barge or float a is provided with uprights '0, braces d, and a conveyer-platform b, which parts form a permanent trestle or framework upon the barge. o provide a pocket 6 at one end of the trestle or framework and a mastf and boom 9, with suitable supporting-ropes, at the other end of the trestle or framework. We provide an engine or similar power device h, fixed upon the barge or float, a track '5, carried by the trestle or 7 5 framework, and upon this track is a traveler or carriage Z, supporting the conveyor-bucket is, which is connected to and operated by the engine from the ropes 'm. Instead of the traveler Z, the bucket 76, and the ropes m we may employ an endless chain conveyor of buckets.

The canal-boat 0 or other vessel is shown at one end of the barge or float a, and at the other end of the barge, upon a brick foundation representing the land or a pier, We have shown a car 0 on a track on the level and a car 8 on the trestle s, elevated above the conveyer platform b. We have also represented a chute 2 from the pocket 6 to the car 'r and a chute 3 from the upper end of the trestle s, beneath the car 3, to the pocket e.

We have also indicated material upon the barge and material in the canal-boat 0 or other vessel, and in the operation of the device the 5 coal, ore, Or other similar material can be removed from the vessel 0 by the conveyor and delivered upon the barge or float a and the same be removed to a distant pointinto deeper water, where the material is removed from [00 the barge and delivered over the boom into an adjoining vessel, which, for the illustra tion, may draw too much water to be brought to the point where the barge received its supply of material.

The material from the vessel 0 may be removed and conveyed along over the barge and delivered into the pocket 6, adjoining a dock, from which it runsinto the carrto be removed to the point of destination. Material may also be delivered at tide'water by ears 8 on the trestle s and the material run by a chute 3 into the pocket 6 of the barge, from which it is-taken by the conveyer and either delivered on the barge, to be thereafter de- 1 livered to a vessel or some distant point to which the barge is removed, or the material may be taken from the pocket and conveyed across the barge and delivered into an adjacent vessel at its other end.

Our invention forms an efficient and complete device for receiving, storing, transporting, and delivering coal, ore, or similar merchandise between a barge and vessel either adjacent or at a distant point or between a by the platform and overhead track, a means D for operating the said conveyer, and a loading and unloading device connected to the trestle at the end opposite to the boom and projecting beyond the barge, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with a barge or float, of a permanent trestle or framework upon and connected to the same,a platform and track carried by the said framework ortrestle, a boom or arm extending out at one end beyond the floator barge and a pocket formed in the framework or trestle at the other end of the barge or float, and a conveyer supported by the platform and overhead track and a means for operating the said conveyer, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with the barge or float, of a permanent trestle or framework upon and connected to the float, a platform and overhead track supported by the trestle or framework, a mast and a projecting boom at one end of the said trestle and float, and a pocket made in the trestle at the other end of the float, an engine upon the float, a traveler upon the track, ropes extending lengthwise of the platform and track and pulleys therefor, a conveyer-bucket connected to the said ropes and operating in connection with the traveler, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed by us this 19th day of October, 1899.

ROBERT D. WHITE. PERCY S. HILDRETH. ALFRED LIEBMANN.

Witnesses:

GEo. T. PINOKNEY, E. E. PoHLs. 

